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THE, CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1941
GUERILLAS TAKE TOLL YUGOSLAVIA
(By A. "New York Times" Correspondent)
IN
THE SERBIAN GUERILLA komitajis are still D.S.O. LAST MONTH,
M.C. THIS
holding out against the German and Italian armies in Yugoslavia, waging a bushwhacking war in the night against enemy stragglers, couriers and isolated patrols in the mountains of Montenegro and Central and South Serbia and within the environs of LEWIS, WELSH GUARDS, WHO desolate Belgrade itself.
Despite the German and Italian concentrations of more than five divisions in North, South and Central Serbia, Macedonia and Dalmatia, the war goes on.
CAPT (TEMP MAJOR) JAMES CHARLES WINDSOR
RECEIVED THE D.S.O. ONLY LAST MONTH, HAS NOW BEEN AWARDED THE M.C. FOR DIS- TINGUISHED SERVICES IN THE FIELD.
At the time of the D.S.0, award it was stated that Major Lewis,
This correspondent, who alone time with the Yugoslay Govern- who was an amateur rider, held amtong the journalists LCCOM - ment and with Cetnik (komitaji) the remnants of his company for panied the former Yugoslav Gov- | leaders in Montenegro. Herzego-36 hours in the streets of Boulogne ernment until its collapse follow-vina and about Boka Kotorska in after seeing all his brother off- ing that of the general staff wit-Dahnatia unlij the flight of the cers killed or wounded, ater he bessed the fight of thousands of government to Greece and the de- was captured, but escaped, Serbian and Montenegrin soldiers, purtare of the Cetniks to the who carried with them huge mountains. quantities of ammunition and fire-
la Cattare Pay at Herren awarded to Lt. (temp. Capt.) F. arms, grenades. and even a few
where
and ninety-four British Fitch, Royal Norfolk Regt., batteries of mountain guns into diplomats und nationals
Lt. (temp. Capt.) D. B. Lang. mountains of Montenegro, captured by the tallans on April Queen's Own Cameron Highland- Serbia and Herzegovina.
17 at 4 p.m. the Montenegriners.
The
were
The London Gazette announeed that the M.C. had also been
These soldiers, who fled only | Cetnik leader divulged the plan The D.C.M. has been awarded to when their government had flown | to his followers,
Coe, who had pre- Ptc. L. A.
to Greece by British and Yugo-Leeded him to the hills near the Corps.
slav
Betrayed, He Declares
Army Dental
AID TO BRITAIN
planes from Risanj Niksich,; Risanj Pass. intended to join the komitujís and carry on their war to exact a last ounce of revenge against the in- vaders and maintain the appar-
"Simovitch | Premier Dusan ently unquenchable spirit that ty- | Simovitch] has gone," he said. spired the coup of March 27, over- "We might have expected all thised to confer throwing the Cvetkovitch gov- if we had considered it coldly. ernment. which surrendered ut We were betrayed, spied upun Vienna to the Axis.
and, in the end, defeated by those whom we trusted least
the Croats, the Bosnians and some of the Slovenes.
Disorder Reigns
That Serlis are carrying on the war is specified in the disorder and disorganisation that reigns in Itahan-dominated Albania and in fighting after nightfall in
The Serbia.
In
7
Belgrade Itself. where death is the penalty for ven. turing into the bomb blasted city after
there is a p.m., dal y mounting toll of German dead and wounded. There is a higher toll of Ser- ban lives each day in retaliation. the Germans execute ten. sometimes twenty, for every Ger- mun soldier killed, but that does got stop it.
for
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"The Cvetkovitch government refused again and again to pro- vide our army with portable short-wave sending and receiving equipment. The army could not get funds for auxiliary telephone and telegraph lines.
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"} American Atlantic and Gulf shipping operators have been call- with the Maritime Commission to-morrow on what vessels they can turn over to aid Britain, International News Ser- vice.
government was fatal. The gen- eral staff failed next. Any army man will tell you a general staff cannot be built in a day; no, nor ten days, Or even a year. It was pushed through with o'd men. good enough in their day but senile to the point of absurdity when Germany struck us with the full power of her Blitzkrieg.
"It was chaos when it start- ed" -
he spread his hands →→ Finally Nincitch (Foreign Min- "not even the General Staff
ister Moncil Nincitch) and the knew the disposition of (Gen. Foreign Office staff failed every erai
Milan) Neditch's Army one. The sheep-like flight of the (the Army of the South, which | Foreign Office staff is a chapter defended Skopje).
in our history which we must "Nedi'ch justified all the trust | live down when we are free once and hope we had placed in him. again and independent --all Ser- Far better if he had joined Sino-bians."
ture.
"Now," he said. "that part of It is finished. The
government
vitch in a coup last November 5 The komitaji chief spread his as he wanted to do - wheo | hands in his characteristic ges- The Germans shoot without the Italians bombed Bitol). Then warning in Belgrade. A young it might have been another story. woman was machine-gunned and We could have knocked the la- riddled before the Brazilian Lega-hans out of Greece and tion the night this correspondent The komitaji chieftain, a man returned from Dalmatia. Upon her back was chalked the time of her death; "8:15." As fur could be learned this woman was a harmless creature caught after deadline atop the Dedinje Hill en route to her home and running. She was unarmed.
The Germans, it seems, rarely get the Serbian komitalis who are nightly shooting or kniting every German who ventures away from the protection of hundreds of Nazi machine-gunners posted throughout the city at 7 o'clock.
Italians Woo In Vain
The Italians in the south-west
is gone, the army demobilised, the Germans and Italians in occupa- of 02 years, who fought the Austion, Belgrade all but destroyed tro-Hungarian Army out of the with nearly 6,000 killed In those Vardar Valley in 1917 and 1918, bombings of Sunday and Monday again spread his hands.
and the following Friday. Now "Simovitch must have known it we begin our war from the bush was suicide if the expected
thing we all as we always have fought and as happened, and it did we And it. You saw them at happen. But he did the only Cetinje and Perast?" thing any real Serb could have done under the circumstances. He fought."
minute, then continued:
The komitaji leader paused a
He referred to the night when the news of the armistice became known in Montenegro and Cat- taro Bay. That was the night that the soldiers began to go in "He is much criticised to-day two's, three's, five's and larger for the defeat of the Southern groups. They came into one Army and the fall of the govern- kafana at Perast and cach of ment and the surrender. Well, them had a slivovitz or a glass of he could be criticised truly for wine. One by one they drank none of them. Simovitch is up, smashed the glass and left.
guilty of only one thing -he Some of them, accompanied the did what every true-blooded Serb drink with a toast, "Zivila Serb- would have done.
jo!" but most of them did not.
to repair the
do little shooting and are still vainly attempting to woo the Dalmatians and exiled Serbs into something like friendship with the
"The failure of communications? troops of occupation. The so- He had ten days after he threw Not Fighting Alone called Croat Guard, altired in out the rotten Cvetkovich gov- dark greenish-brown uniforms ernment in which and carrying rifles and revolvers, damage of years.
This drinking and these depar- The Southern tures went on until way into the carry out most of the police work Army's defeat? Neditch fought morning. Reliable witnesses said after nightfall. The Croat Guard's
a bruve and really incredible the same thing happened in al- weeding-out process of countless Aght and lost nearly three divi- most every unoccupied point in arrests and questionings, execu- sions in killed and wounded be- Montenegro and Serbia and even tions und imprisonments have so far failed to make a dent in the order
cause the general staff failed tóin Dalmatia and Croatia.
the dynamiting of the operations of the komitați.
Kuchanik Pass and the German Now that Croat and Bosnian Army reached Skoplje in forty- fifth columnists have come out. eight hours. openly with, the inyaders there are no more of the fatal leakages that caused the Yugoslav Army an estimated 36,000 men
and, when. communications were shat- tered the first day of the war, led to the downfall of the govern- ment, the capitulation of the General Staff and the armistice.
Each operative knowa hia fallows, Axis counter-espionage "The fall of the government Europe dared to strike a blow for Is proceeding feebly.
was - the fall of the government.liberty. Our government is des- This correspondent, erroneously Simovitch reconstructed his gov-troyed; the nation split into pieces reported killed in the early bomb-einment from good men and bad and our Serbian cities laid in ings of Belgrade, then reported It could have been a strong gov ruins.
At Mostar, where the Croate first rebelled after the, Zagreb, putsch, one group of Berbian officers kliled thirty-two. Croat, "The general staff, did. not Ustaschi (revolutionaries). be- order the mining in time before the offloors left for the. cause it takes time to minq, 4, gorge, so the mining, was not, completed, when the Germans struck.
Compromise Government
mountains,
"So, continued the komitaji chieftain, our war begins. It is a hopeless war if you like, quite impossible and quite futile, if we fight alone. But I do not think we'll fight alone. Our people. alone among the small peoples of
killed at Sairajevo and. Tudza in ernment if the men had remained. "But we Serbs, feel certain that, the day-long bombings and aerial strong. He had to make a com- we shall receive aid. from Eng- strafings, and finally reported promise government it. Yugoslavia land for the underground party captured by an Italian destroyer as a State was to live.
and soldiers still #ghting, in un-
In the company of the British "Matchek. (Vladimir Matchels, occupied territories, and finally Minister to Yugoslavia, Ronald Croat leader) falled him first from America. And so we shall Ian Campbell was at the same Matchek's delay in joining the go on fighting.
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